I have to hurry up and exercise my right to free speech here, while I still have it. I can see myself sitting behind bars for engaging in “hate speech,” that is, for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A few days ago, Congress passed the controversial “hate crimes” bill. I don’t know if it will pass in the Senate or if it 
will ultimately survive the president’s promised veto, though the main issue here is not political but spiritual. I don’t want to see America go down like one more of the devil’s dominoes, for she is already tottering.
One point about the bill before I go on, a critique from one congressman who evidently hasn’t yet sold his soul to the PC agenda: “Opposing the measure, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said the bill would result in disproportionate justice for victims of certain crimes. ‘All violent crimes must be vigorously prosecuted. However this bill, no matter how well intended, undermines basic principles of our criminal justice system. Under this bill justice will no longer be equal but depend on the race, sex, sexual orientation, disability or status of the victim,’ he said. ‘For example, criminals who kill a homosexual or a transsexual will be punished more harshly than criminals who kill a police officer, members of the military, a child, a senior citizen or any other person.’ Smith also voiced concern that the measure would have a ‘chilling effect’ on religious leaders and groups ‘who express their constitutionally protected beliefs.’”
You see who stands to benefit by this bill: the “gay” lobby. Oh, there are others included who would also receive the same unconstitutional privileged status, but do you think this bill would ever even have made it to the house floor if homosexuality were a non-issue in this country? Of course not. But this bill is only one small part of the whole picture. I must grudgingly give the homosexual activists, and their father, whose will they do (see John 8:44), credit for pulling off the most outrageous and sinister coup in modern times. They have, in a couple decades, almost completely hijacked Western society, at least in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, and the US. More will probably follow. What was illegal and universally contemned a short time ago is now publicly and obscenely celebrated as a right, something that is “normal” and good, and which is considered, in some degenerate religious circles, a “gift of God.” And the media-brainwashed masses just say, “OK, whatever,” if they are not actually riding the rainbow in support of them.
(I want to make it clear that the people I’m criticizing in this post are not homosexual men and women who are nobly struggling against something they wish they didn’t have, especially those who are making great personal sacrifices for the sake of the Gospel. They deserve our respect and support.)
The homosexual activists, who are almost all anti-Christian, are a minority, a fairly small one, but a very vocal one, with highly disproportionate political and economic clout. The media, the schools, government, commerce, and, to some extent, religion, bend over backwards (or simply bend over, as the case may be) to accommodate them. That in itself, while reprehensible, could perhaps be reluctantly tolerated simply as one more inevitable sign of a rapidly decomposing society—if they didn’t also persecute anyone who would dare to stand up and say that this is wrong. The laws that we are bound to see before too long will have more than a “chilling effect” on the free-speech rights of those who preach the Gospel. They will end up putting us in prison. Or rather, those who follow Christ, that is, religious fanatics, will be compassionately housed in re-education centers (landscaped with high fences and razor wire) where we can learn the principles of tolerance and diversity, if we ever wish to be compassionately reintroduced into the new world order. It’s not here yet, but don’t think it’s not on the way. Not that I flinch at the prospect of witnessing to Christ under persecution—rather, I weep for all who are masterminding this diabolical coup, and especially for all the clueless victims of it. Most of the leaders and organizers know what they are doing and who they are serving, and while I grieve the loss of any human soul, I pray first that justice be done and their intentions unmasked before they take a lot more souls with them.
The futuristic predictions of Orwell, Huxley, Lewis, and others are coming to pass one by one, and things that these fiction-writers couldn’t even imagine are spilling across our daily papers. I recently read that some major internet providers are now refusing to send mailings by organizations that speak out against militant homosexuals and militant Muslims (both avowed enemies of Christianity and, ironically, enemies of each other), classifying their newsletters as “hate speech.” They are not waiting for laws to be passed before they begin their persecution: strict censorship by the champions of liberalism who, on the other hand, think nothing of granting child pornographers and the slimiest of perverts their permission for “free speech.”
Who is it that really hates? The followers of the Crucified, who have been told, “teach the nations all I have commanded you”? Or is it those architects of degeneracy, who are “full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity… slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil… foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless,” who “not only do these things but approve those who practice them”? (see Rom. 1:26-32). Jesus warned us: “You will be hated by all for my name’s sake” (Mt 10:22). This will soon come to pass. He immediately adds, however: “But he who endures to the end will be saved.” And that is all that really matters.
I was wondering the other day why this moral and spiritual plague has been advancing over the Western world so rapidly, especially when the power of the Holy Sacrifice of Christ is available through the Church? One reason is that it is not offered nearly as often as it used to be, but the other reason is more frightening: so many priests are “gay” and proud of it! So much desecration has entered into the sanctuary of God that his grace is being impeded. Not that any power on earth or in Hell could ever thwart God’s ultimate design, but He takes human freedom seriously, and we have to reap what we have sown. I beg the Lord, as I lift up the holy chalice of his Sacred Mysteries, to manifest his power and shed his light in the gathering gloom of this world, so that the “strong delusion” (2Thess. 2:9-12) that has come over Western society may be dispelled, and that people may begin again to believe the truth and no longer take pleasure in unrighteousness.
It may be that this currently flagrant “gay” movement will in a few generations retreat with embarrassment to the dustbins of history, but it also may be that it is here to stay. In any case, we have at least to persevere in speaking the truth, even if that ultimately means martyrdom. For how can we stand before God if we have compromised with the dark powers of this present age? How can the tolerance of manifest evil pass muster at the Awesome Tribunal? It may be that there is not a whole lot we can do on the social or political level to change laws or mores (though if every Christian in this country rose up as one man, we’d see some changes, but that’s not likely to happen). We can, however, stand firm in faith, we can pray and sacrifice, we can make whatever contribution to the cause of truth and the Gospel that we are able to make. Let us also pray that the Church will stand up fearlessly to proclaim and live the Gospel, and stop making deals with the devil. The wishy-washyness among all too many of her leaders is the same tepidity that nauseates the Lord (see Rev. 3:16).
Let us walk with eyes open, with hearts guarded, and with the true love and compassion that does not bless sin but that longs for the salvation of all and hence calls sinners to repentance. I don’t know about you, but I’m not going down with the sinking ship of our polluted society. Let us, like St Peter, reach out our hands to Christ, who walks on the turbulent sea of the present time, and cry out: “Lord, save us!” And He will.
